Monday's Stock Market Trading Was Historic For Its Light Liquidityhttp://www.businessinsider.com/monday-trading-day-record-low-liquidity-2013-1/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Fri, 09 Dec 2016 22:21:58 -0500Linette Lopezhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/50ea676e6bb3f7803f000008Peter parkerMon, 07 Jan 2013 01:13:02 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50ea676e6bb3f7803f000008
Hi Linette Lopez , Your graph according to your annotation about trading is very nice . I am impressed. And yes this is true........ There is lot s of wallflower s growing like mushrooms in markets due to the light liquidity.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50e501b0ecad04c124000001s jayWed, 02 Jan 2013 22:57:36 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50e501b0ecad04c124000001
umm...the VIX didn't set a 52 week low on Monday. New Year's Eve is a light day, at least usually, so a gigantic news day, especially with a lot of volatile ups and downs to the news, would be expected to move prices. Prices can move drastically on zero volume if everyone changes their offers because of a news item. So the liquidity comment seemed like a non-sequitur. With respect, I must ask, what the heck are you trying to report? I don't know what Mr. Hunsader was trying to explain, but it does seem reasonable that a big news day when market participation is at an extreme low would result in very low "ability to convert assets into cash". Not exactly a deep read. Pretty picture, I guess, modulo eye of the beholder.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50e4e3026bb3f7bb57000004Gary AndersonWed, 02 Jan 2013 20:46:42 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50e4e3026bb3f7bb57000004
So, light liquidity results in what? Seems that saying it would bring high volatility with the vix crashing seems to be a conflict. Explain please, Linette.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50e4cd0eecad04b43c000010Chris hauserWed, 02 Jan 2013 19:13:02 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50e4cd0eecad04b43c000010
And this means.......
A lot of wallflowers?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50e4a2a46bb3f7535b00001aChad MWed, 02 Jan 2013 16:12:04 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50e4a2a46bb3f7535b00001a
I'd expect today to be similar...on the SPY we did less volume in the last hour than on Monday and it moved sharply higher. Mutual Funds got squeezed as they chased and market makers were raising offers rather than filling orders.